4.8 • 946 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Henry Bushkin was only a few years into his legal career when Johnny Carson hired him as his personal lawyer/manager for a golden period that became the most productive 18 years of his career. His book Johnny Carson was a #1 New York Times Best Seller and one of the “Ten Best Books of the Year” in 2013. Known as "Bombastic Bushkin," he was The Tonight Show host’s best friend and played a major role in his life that was very involved and complex, as he was equal parts sounding board, drinking buddy, tennis partner, travel companion, business manager, and all-around trusted confidant— with the power to clean up any mess that impeded Carson’s productivity or happiness. His inside information on one of America’s greatest treasures is both compelling and equally shocking, as he tells the intimate never-before-heard stories of the man, the myth, and the legend that was Johnny Carson.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/industry-standard-w-barry-katz/supportClick on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Hey everybody, let me remind you one more time about my new Blueprint for Success. |
0:05.0 | It's a project that I've spent months and months working on just to help you jumpstart your comedy career and beat the competition. |
0:13.5 | Whether you want to do stand-up sketch, improv, acting, writing, producing, directing, radio, social media, influencing, |
0:21.5 | or even if you want a career behind the scenes as a manager or agent, |
0:25.5 | Blueprint for Success will give you all the tools you need to take your career to the highest levels. |
0:32.0 | With exclusive interviews, my top 50 commercial free episodes from industry standard, |
0:37.8 | one-on-one coaching with me, and unprecedented access into my knowledge and experience from over 40 years in this crazy business. |
0:47.0 | I guarantee you that with Blueprint for Success, you'll become the creator you've always dreamed of becoming. |
0:54.0 | No one's asking me to do this. I want to do it because I want to help you become truly undeniable. |
1:02.0 | So just go to berrycats.com, click on Blueprint for Success, and start your incredible journey today. |
1:11.0 | I truly can't wait to work with you to help you change the trajectory of your comedy career forever. |
1:21.0 | Ed knew every bit of Johnny's personality, every bit of it, because Ed has a similar personality. |
1:27.0 | Very narcissistic, very self-centered, only thinks about himself, and when you have two guys like that, both very successful, |
1:37.0 | it led to Johnny saying, screw it, I'm done with this, close it down. |
1:51.0 | Alright, welcome back to industry standard with me, berrycats. Very exciting times here with my guest today, Henry Bushkin. |
2:01.0 | I am very, very excited, but first I'd like to tell a little story that's sort of as a sixth degree of separation to my guest in my own life. |
2:10.0 | I started going to college in Boston, and I quickly was involved in running a comedy club called Play It Again Sam's, which was a very weird place in a sense. |
2:22.0 | It had four entities inside. It had a pub where there was a guitar player in a corner underneath a television set who played inside the bar and entertained that little small area of people. |
2:35.0 | It was a restaurant in the middle. There was a movie bar on the other side, which was larger than had couches and tables. |
2:44.0 | And this is before DVD and video or digital entertainment. |
2:49.0 | The owner of the club would rent films, and he would play them. |
2:54.0 | For instance, if there's a movie that you know of, let's say that's coming out on DVD, it released on whatever digital platform, and you know it's going to be released in so many weeks after the movie. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -845 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Barry Katz, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Barry Katz and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.